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Within Vinony's link graph, 9334 Moesta connects to HTML element, list of minor planets: 9001–10000 and JPL Small-Body Database.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1990, Discoveries by Eric Walter Elst and Eunomia asteroids.
Its subject is documented across 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Picture of the Day · NASA
Pathfinder on Mars
2026-07-04
On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before it came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. After its then novel airbag-assisted landing sequence was completed, Pathfinder transmitted this color mosaic to mission operators on Earth. In the scene from another world, the Mars Sojourner robot rover is visible in the foreground, crouched on top of the unfolded Pathfinder. About the size of a large house cat, the six-wheeled, solar-powered Sojourner became the first successful Martian rover. Surrounding Pathfinder are deflated airbags and the rock-strewn terrain of the Ares Vallis floodplain. In the distance Martian hills appear against a dusty brownish sky. The Pathfinder lander was subsequently renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station.
via NASA APOD
Small body data
9334 Moesta (1990 UU3)
- Orbit class
- Main-belt Asteroid
- Diameter
- 5.389 km
- Albedo
- 0.182
- Rotation period
- 5.848 h
- Absolute magnitude
- 13.570 H
- Earth MOID
- 1.200 AU
via NASA/JPL Small-Body Database
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- asteroid
- Followed by
- (9335) 1991 AA1
- Follows
- 9333 Hiraimasa
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 5.389
- Orbital period
- 1562.847461168687
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eric Walter Elst
- site of astronomical discovery
- La Silla Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1997 GP30
- time of discovery or invention
- 1990-10-16
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1722490121979598
- absolute magnitude
- 13.57
- orbital inclination
- 11.87071764742735
- periapsis
- 2.181616874557325
- apoapsis
- 3.089574357361971
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.635595615959648
- mean anomaly
- 168.2713114294303
- longitude of ascending node
- 188.8230881028948
- argument of periapsis
- 100.0389650419991
- albedo
- 0.182
- rotation period
- 5.848
- time of periapsis
- 2460269.9933559583
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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